Shandong master's golden touch

A really great Shandong cuisine master brings food to life at Shan Mei Xuan (膳美轩). The restaurant's chefs include a master retired from the famous Feng Ze Lou and his team of chefs. Shandong cuisine, as one of four major Chinese cuisines, is known for its seafood, pure, fresh and tasty dishes, with more than 30 cooking methods, especially braising and quick frying. As a representative of North Chinese cuisines, Shandong cuisine chefs dominated the dining tables of Chinese emperors in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

The menu at Shan Mei Xuan presents a relatively complete version of Shandong cuisine. The famous sea cucumber is not only braised with spring onion and brown sauce, but also served in different dishes with rice, in soup, or with pork. Shrimp is also made in different styles: in sweet and sour sauce, with longjing (dragon well) green tea, and soft-fried wrapped in flour.

The restaurant also serves sea bass, yellow fish, jellyfish, mandarin fish, and shark fin in thick soup.